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CTED concludes focused visit to Montenegro

From 18 to 22 March 2024, the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), conducted on behalf of the Committee its first focused visit to Montenegro. CTED conducts these visits to assess Member States’ counter-terrorism efforts, including progress made, good practices, remaining challenges, and priority areas for technical assistance needs related to the effective implementation of the relevant Security Council resolutions.

The visits remain one of the key channels of the Counter-Terrorism Committee to engage and conduct a constructive dialogue with Member States with a view to achieving effective and comprehensive implementation of the relevant Security Council resolutions on counter-terrorism.

 

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CTC special meeting 2022

The special meeting of the United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee on “Countering the use of new and emerging technologies for terrorist purposes” will be held in India on 28-29 October 2022. The theme focuses on three areas where emerging technologies are experiencing rapid development and increasing threat of abuse for terrorist purposes: terrorism financing; unmanned aerial systems (UAS); and the Internet and social media. Click here for more information.

Civil society perspectives: ISIL in Africa - Key trends and developments

A growing number of ISIL-affiliated groups in Africa have shown an ability to launch deadly and coordinated attacks, capture strategic territories, recruit followers using anti-Government propaganda, and conscript child soldiers. With the exception of attacks carried out by the Islamic State — Sinai Province and the Islamic State in Somalia (ISS), the frequency of ISIL attacks and the resulting casualties across the continent indicate that African States are facing an unprecedented terrorist threat.